COLLEEN ITANI
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  • installations
    • raouche I
    • raouche II
    • semi-detached
  • books
    • full pill/half hold
    • the forms are not
    • the sleepwalker
    • fishtown deliveries 1 + 2
    • stations
    • three minute zines
  • prints/photo
    • new construction
    • subdivisions
  • video
    • drawing the duplex
    • sinkdance
  • about
  • Home
  • installations
    • raouche I
    • raouche II
    • semi-detached
  • books
    • full pill/half hold
    • the forms are not
    • the sleepwalker
    • fishtown deliveries 1 + 2
    • stations
    • three minute zines
  • prints/photo
    • new construction
    • subdivisions
  • video
    • drawing the duplex
    • sinkdance
  • about
 © colleen itani 2020


Colleen Itani (b. 1990) is an artist making drawings, prints, books, zines, ceramics, and installations. She  founded Tallahassee Zine Fest and currently serves as co-director. Itani has exhibited throughout the US. 

She lives and works in Philadelphia.

Say hi: colleenitani[at]gmail[dot]com

EDUCATION
MFA in Studio Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 2019
BFA in Studio Art, Graduated Cum Laude, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, 2016
BA in International + Cultural Studies, Graduated Cum Laude, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL 2012
Study Abroad, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 2010 

EXHIBITIONS
SELECT SOLO + TWO PERSON* SHOWS
2018 Dizzy Pots, Working Method Gallery*

2017 It’s important if I’m crying/if I’m crying it’s important, SOUP*
Artificial Picnic, Space 2: Space Removed, the SH/ed/*
2016 Can I? Highs/Lows, smalls
2015 Colleen Explains It All, Centre for Girls

SELECT GROUP SHOWS
2019 Soft Science, Abrams Claghorn Gallery

2018 Endless Editions Biennial, EFA Project Space
DocuFlorida II: Projections and Prints, Pensacola Museum of Art
Activating the Apparatus, Strange Matter ATL

Extra, 130 Gallery
RISO Room, Risotto
Dinner for One, Working Method Contemporary
2017 Dean’s List, Thomas Deans Gallery
Artificial Picnic II, ITINERANT Performance Festival
Lady Liberty At Her Desk, Working Method Gallery Beauty and the Biotch, Oglesby Gallery
2016 It’s a Comedy Show! Phyllis Straus Gallery Seeking Identity, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery
2015 Annual Juried Exhibition, Osceola Arts Pop-Up Shop, Tempus Gallery
Juried Exhibition, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery

Open Invite Only, MF Arts Gallery
Now That’s What I Call Art, Cafe Hey
Human Rights Juried Exhibition, University of Tampa
2014 Art That Makes You Happy, Kushi Hana
Beat It, Creep! Cafe Hey
Flash Mob, Florida Museum of Photographical Arts
2012 Juried Exhibition, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery 


AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT 2019 
Awesome Grant, Tallahassee, FL, 2019
Travel Grant, College of Fine Arts, Florida State University, 2018
Andy McLaughlin Memorial Award, Florida State University, 2017
Graduate Student Excellence in Visual Arts Award Finalist, Florida State University, 2017
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INVITED TALKS + PUBLISHED ARTWORKS
“Two Talks + Two Soups,” with Maggie Ginestra, Facility for Arts Research, Tallahassee, FL, 2018
“Tallahassee Zine Fest, ” Paper Cuts Podcast with Christopher Kardambikis, Tallahassee, FL, 2019
“Sinking Feeling,” Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art, 2019
“Apology,” Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art, 2018
“Troop I,” Selfish Magazine, 2016 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Department Assistant in Contemporary Art Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, November 2019 - Present
Instructor of Adult Painting, Drawing, and Children’s Mixed Media Philly Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2018- October 2019
Instructor of Children’s Drawing and Wheel Throwing Lafayette Art Center, Tallahassee, FL, 2019
Instructor of Record, 2D Design Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 2018-2019
Photography Lab Assistant Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 2016-2017
Education Abroad Advisor University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, 2015-2016
Academic Advisor University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, 2013-2015


OFTEN COLLABORATES WITH:
Kelly Lorraine Hendrickson
Christina Anduiza


  • Home
  • installations
    • raouche I
    • raouche II
    • semi-detached
  • books
    • full pill/half hold
    • the forms are not
    • the sleepwalker
    • fishtown deliveries 1 + 2
    • stations
    • three minute zines
  • prints/photo
    • new construction
    • subdivisions
  • video
    • drawing the duplex
    • sinkdance
  • about